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“PARCC Common-Core Test Gets Federal Approval
By Catherine Gewertz Jan. 23, 2018
By guest blogger Catherine Gewertz
“The PARCC test has won an unusual nod of approval from the U.S. Department of Education: It got an unconditional thumbs-up as an assessment that complies with the federal rules governing how well tests measure mastery of states’ academic standards.
“Sound obscure? Well, it is. But it’s also significant, because it means that one PARCC state (Yes, just one. More on that in a second.) has now won the official federal stamp of approval. …”
Just last week Betsy said Common Core was “dead.”
It all depends on what “dead” means, I guess.
The irony is that so many states have dropped PARCC that only 5 or 6 still use it.
Betsy must be trying to breathe new life into a dying test.
So much for Trump’s pledge to kill Common Core.
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This wouldn’t have anything to do with the new NJ governor saying he’d get rid of PARCC? I could hear the Pearson executives cry because our district (JC, nearing 30,000 students) uses their curriculum as well (so they can say they don’t teach to the test but in the end do nothing but.) We need to get back to paper and pencil tests and stop the data gathering madness !
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education and commented:
She continues to amaze us with just how disconnected and clueless she truly is….ugh.
“The Common Corpse”
“Test what is dead!”
DeVos has said
Tally the score
For Common Core
Does the Prince family own a lot of stock in Pearson?
Probably not, but who knows?
It would be remiss not to speculate. 😉
“We need more rolls of paper here fast, we’ve run out of room on the list of broken promises by the Dump administration!”
I’m sure that Trump forgot he made that pledge to kill Common Core. And if someone reminds him by sending him a video of him making that pledge, he will call it fake news and claim he never said it. And his deplorable supports will believe him.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/23/conservatives-erupt-betsy-devos-announcement-common-core-dead/
DING DING DING…..It’s the state of MD! PARCC has become our graduation requirement. Common Chore is alive and well here. This is why it is private school for my 2nd child. TIRED OF DEALING WITH THIS and all of the other rephorms that our children have to endure….SEL, ed tech, AP for all, SAT madness. Our education system is owned by Pearson. It’s a sad state of affairs for education in MD. Thank you Chester Finn, Andy Smarick, Mike Petrilli, and Larry Hogan for sending parents running in droves to private schools.
Lisa,
You are doing exactly what they want
You’re right, but tell me you wouldn’t do the same if it were your child? I’ve already sacrificed 1 to the system and she will continue in public school for her last 2 years. I’ve been patiently waiting for change, but it keeps getting worse. Despite all the reforms and our fighting with school admin, my daughter has her art and music that satisfies her. The younger one would perish….he comes home every day from school talking about how much he hates it and is moody on Sunday because he has to go back. There is nothing for him in public school. If my children were younger, I would pull them out to homeschool in a co-op, but they are older and NEED to go to school. Tell me what you would do….and don’t say “run for the school board”, because you know that’s unrealistic with MD politics and our proximity to DC. Please tell me what all of us parents should do while our children rot in classrooms.
Lisa,
Every parent must do what is best for their child.
Every citizen must fight like the dickens to throw these grifters out of Office and save our public schools.
If the Police Department were corrupt and incompetent, I wouldn’t blame you for hiring a private security guard. Don’t ask the public to pay for it.
But for the sake of the country, join the fight with your neighbors to reclaim our country.
Lisa, the people that caused everything in the public school that you are complaining about are the ones that want you to send your children to a private school or corporate charter school or an online school.
Why do you think they turned the public schools into what they have become? The teachers didn’t do it. And many teachers that dared to stand up and fight lost their jobs.
And every time a parent yanks their kids out of a public school instead of fighting back to save those schools, those parents are helping monsters (I repeat, monsters) turn this country over to a bunch of fascist, theocratic, autocratic, greedy thugs that are doing all they can to destroy the U.S. Constitution and the republic it was written to protect.
No one is paying for private school except for us. Yes, we have a voucher program in MD, but I don’t want that blood money. This school doesn’t want to take that money because they don’t want their students held accountable to the state (testing, data). The only thing we can do as parents is vote, but unfortunately, education is at the end of a long list of wrongs being done to mankind. I could vote and wait, but I’ve waited long enough. I must protect my children, because no one else will do it for me. Even my sister, a retired 30+ yr teaching veteran, agrees with this…all of this reform is why she retired. Living on the fringes of DC means that we have more politics thrust upon us and change is very slow.
Do what you have to do as a parent to protect the education of your children, but don’t stop fighting/protesting/voting to save the traditional public schools
Trump didn’t know what Common Core was. He didn’t even know who John Boehner was. No one is in charge. It’s free play time for Betsy Billionaire et al., for Corporate Libertarianism and for Corporate Welfare.
Lisa M., if I was in your situation, I would be reacting the same way, but as Lloyd says don’t quit fighting. The battle is for far more than just public schools.
Thank you! And you are correct that the battle is for far more than public school. This is ALL about destroying democracy from the ground up so that a few wealthy people can rule the world.